Wand/Staff damage physical or magic?

[my butt is erect]

I was doing a static charge build - whatever it's called - and when considering the Adaptable talent (+1% atk and matk), it occurred to me I'm not even sure if my ATK stat is helping anything. This build is using a wand or staves to have strong static hits and spamming basic attack.

I read a comment somewhere that wands and staves are doing magic damage with their basic attacks. Is that actually true, or are all basic attacks physical? If true, physical attack stat would be literally worthless in this build if there are no melee skills.

Pretty sure the projectiles are magic, but I would't expect this applies to the actual whack of the weapon.

[Marioalexsan]

https://secretsofgrindea.fandom.com/wiki/Weapons has detailed info about basic attack damage.

TL;DR Magic weapons deal 40% of ATK + MATK combined (before other multipliers). The projectile fired is 40% MATK.

[Marioalexsan]

If in doubt, you can always do /dcspawn in Evergrind City and see how the damage you get from whacking the dummy changes as your stats change.

[my butt is erect]

Oh thanks, I looked all over but didn't manage to find that specific page. Didn't know about the dummy thing.